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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – APRIL 8, 2025  
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April 8, 2025
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_ That was the week that was _

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* Democracy’s Fate Will Be Decided at Work
* The Week That Was
* Inside the Deportation Flights
* States Sue to Defend Electoral Process
* Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch Stands Tall
* Columbia Submits
* A Modest (Grant) Proposal
* MAGA Targets Churches
* Women and the DEI Crackdown
* Constitutional Collapse

DEMOCRACY’S FATE WILL BE DECIDED AT WORK
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By Todd Brogan
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Unions serve as pillars of democratic life, through which diverse
groups of working people democratically and collectively pursue their
common interests at work and in society.

THE WEEK THAT WAS
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By Zack Beauchamp
Vox

Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and
shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had
been crystal-clear about wanting across-the-board tariffs during the
campaign. Shocking, because they have been implemented in a manner
that appears extreme and incompetent even by previous Trump
standards. As a result, the world is historically unsettled

INSIDE THE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS
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By McKenzie Funk
ProPublica

Most of the migrants crowding the back seats of ICE Air’s
planes have not been, historically, convicted criminals. ICE makes
restraints mandatory nonetheless. “Detainees transported by ICE Air
aircraft will be fully restrained by the use of handcuffs, waist
chains, and leg irons,” reads an unredacted version of the 2015
ICE Air Operations Handbook.

STATES SUE TO DEFEND ELECTORAL PROCESS
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By Lindsay Whitehurst and Christina A. Cassidy
Associated Press

Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit against Trump’s
attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an
unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their
own elections. The executive order seeks new requirements that
people provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to
vote and a demand that all mail ballots be received by Election Day.

SMITHSONIAN’S LONNIE BUNCH STANDS TALL
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By Christine Ledbetter
Chicago Tribune

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy.
The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the
founding director of the National Museum of African American History
and Culture (NMAAHC), Bunch may be one of the few leaders in
Washington fearless enough to navigate the Trump administration’s
machine gun attacks on the arts.

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By Adam Shatz
London Review of Books

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the
universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also despises.
What _is_ shocking is the ease with which his attack has so far
succeeded. American college administrators and lawyers are responding
to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out
‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their
hand has been forced by the Leader.

A MODEST (GRANT) PROPOSAL
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By Les Leopold
Common Dreams

A grant proposal concerning reparations for the descendants of slave
owners, submitted in good faith to Elon Musk during this cruel and
unusual time of oppressive wokeness.

MAGA TARGETS CHURCHES
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MAGA hordes shed another costume they wore for the election.
Self-declared men of piety barged into an Orlando Church service. They
shouted obscenities after a song performed by a choir of
children. However, communities refuse to take it lying down. Like an
Ohio community arming themselves against Neo-Nazis invasions,
people’s patience with the MAGA movement is wearing thin.

WOMEN AND THE DEI CRACKDOWN
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By Andrea Hsu
NPR

President Trump revoked EO 11246 on his second day in office as part
of his own executive order cracking down on what he sees as widespread
and illegal use of “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and
sex-based preferences” under the guise of diversity, equity,
inclusion and accessibility.

CONSTITUTIONAL COLLAPSE
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By Aziz Rana
New Left Review

Trump has issued a flood of executive orders that explicitly violate
congressional law as well as the written text of the Constitution, on
everything from the denial of birthright citizenship, to crackdowns on
efforts at racial, gender and sexual orientation-based inclusion, to
the destruction of legislatively authorized government agencies. 

* unions
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* democracy
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* Donald Trump
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* Tariffs
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* Deportation
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* election law
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* Smithsonian
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* Lonnie Bunch III
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* National Museum of African American History and Culture
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* Columbia University
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* grantmaking
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* MAGA
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* churches
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* Women
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* DEI
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* Constitution
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* Constitutional Crisis
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